Hi Steve Thank you so much for sharing your work with us! I think you did a really good balancing the character on the bo. Here are a few notes that might help you improve this piece. Shadow - the cast shadow on the ground had very hard edges which seemed to indicate a direct light source, on the other hand the shadows on the character were much softer which seemed to indicate a more defused light source. Format - the square format can very easily become bland, especially when you consider that her pose is also square-like (Hands to tail is almost the same distance as head to toe). Changing the format to a vertical rectangle can help emphasis that she is "climbing" and will create a more dynamic format. Sky - was (in my opinion) too bright and without any gradation, clouds or overhanging trees became monotone. Grass - especially on a sunny day tends to have a warmer tone (this can also help facilitate the cooler shadow you mentioned in you post) Mountains - could definitely use some more colour and contrast to create more form. I did quick paintover to show what these changes could look like. (I hope that is okay with you, if not let me know and I'll remove the png) All I did to the character was to increase the contrast slightly between areas hit by light and those in shadow. On a final note - consider placing the feet in-line instead of side-by-side - I doesn't feel like the bo would be wide enough for both feet.

Hi Carlos The notification you are getting refers to notification in the lower part of the attached picture "Marco Bucci added a new lesson in The Color Survival Guide". If you click on that notification, you should no longer have any active notifications. An easy way to check which notification is still categorized as "Not seen" is to look for the red dot to the left of the message.

Hi Amanda You can create new albums right here: https://www.proko.com/classroom/albums Once you've created an album you can select photoes and move them to the albums you'd like. I hope that helps.

My 2c You should go as fast as you can while still learning/improving. You might be going too fast if you: -         Don’t have control over your pencil/stylus. -         Don’t understand the fundamental/form/lighting/concept you are practicing (can you articulate what you are seeing/learning?), -         Repeatably make the same you mistake (without improvements), -         Don’t understand/take the time to understand what mistakes we’ve made, -         Can’t actively think about and try to incorporate the lessons you’ve learned from your last mistake. Keep in mind, if you only practice at one pace, you’ll have a hard time to adept when you have to change it.

Hi Sagnik Are you a beginner when it comes to drawing in general or just as it relates to cartoon characters?

Really nice work Omkar - especially on the facial expression, bravo! My advise mostly relates the overall appeal of the painting and may therefor be less relevant if realism is you goal. I think you should take advantage of the very dramatic light by increasing the contrast between the areas in light and those in shadow. The brightness range between the light and shadow on the face is a bit too close. Especially if you compare it to the light and shadow on the chain-mail. Your portrait could also benefit from a reduction in the number of highlights/small shapes on the chain-mail - the chain-mail is a very busy area, which is a shame because it draws attention away from the face. The chain-mail would still be recognizable if you reduced the number of small shapes by 30-50 %. Lastly, and this is probably just me that hasn't figured it out. But i don't quite understand why there are two reflections in each eye. It suggest a secondary light source to our right side. If the reference picture is from a movie the second reflection in the eyes (our right side, his left) might come from an artificial light behind the camera.

Hi Adam, I wanna start of by saying I absolutely love the hair in this piece! I took the liberty to do a quick over-paint to high light some of the areas I think you can improve (I hope that is okay with you, if not let me know and I'll delete the attached JPEG) First thing was to reduce the colour saturation on the entire painting. This helped reduce the amount of details in the areas effect by shadow. After that I brought back some saturated colour in the areas hit directly by the light. The lighting on the mask was too symmetrical and didn't match the light you had created in the hair. I brought out the right shoulder from her hair to create more depth. I also brought the swoop of hair closer to the foreground - this did two things, 1. it got rid of the tangent it created with her cheek and 2. it created more depth. If I had to give just one advice, it would be to use less saturation over all. Highly saturation colours should be reserved for areas you want to highlight. If everything is saturation, everything feels important.

Hi Semtex - if hair was an element what kind of element would it be?